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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Series Review Saturday #2

A
Series Review

The
Sweet Series

Titles:
Sweet Evil, Sweet Peril, Sweet Reckoning

Author:
Wendy Higgins

Release
date of last book: April 29, 2014

Publisher:
HarperTeen

“Beloved
YA author Wendy Higgins delivers the explosive conclusion to the
Sweet Evil trilogy. In this dramatic finale to the epic love story
between Anna Whitt and Kaidan Rowe, the time has come for Anna,
daughter of a guardian angel and a fallen one, to accept her fate as
the chosen one. She is destined to rid the earth of demons once and
for all. But as Anna and her Nephilim allies prepare for the evil
brewing, the powerful Dukes use Anna's love for bad boy Kaidan Rowe
against her, and her strength is put to the ultimate test. How far
will the two of them go to keep each other alive? Will love conquer
all in the final battle between good and evil?” - HarperTeen

First
Sentence (First book): I tugged the jean skirt down and tried
not to fidget with the straps of my tanks top as we stood in line for
the show.

First
Sentence (Last book): The moment I left L.A., a fire began
kindling inside me—a satisfying burn of purpose and drive unlike
anything I'd ever experienced.

My
thoughts:

I
don't actually remember how I came across this series but I'm glad I
did, anyway. Perhaps on twitter. First thing that I
love about these books are that they are light reads and
medium-paced. We can rarely find books like these. A lot are
slow-paced and too fast-paced but the Sweet Series is just right.
Easily understood, not too many metaphors and drama and out of the
world vocab but just enough to find the things readers are looking
for in a certain book, like romance, love, adventure, pain and
friendship. This series has the perfect concotion of all those.

And
rarely too do we find YA protagonist or lead characters that are
kind, nice and has a very good heart. My friend told me once that
someone isn't into Sweet Evil because the lead girl (Anna Whitt) is
so kind that she cannot stomach it and cannot believe that she can be
really into this level of good, she said it's too unrealistic. But
she's wrong and she doesn't understand because she hasn't read until
the last page. Ana is the perfect role model of girls. She is sweet,
kind, nice, and good. If the memory serves me right, in Sweet Peril
she saw an old beggar woman in the street and she gave all her money
to her to the last cent, she may have also given her coat also even
if it's snowing and freezing cold. She's the kind of girl that
doesn't party, that doesn't rebel against her mom. She isn't the one
who can plant hate in her heart. She has the best character of all
fictional girls I've ever read about and because of that I'll
remember her forever. But as we go on with the books we can see how
Anna has changed outwardly but her heart is left untouched by
corruption and has stayed to be pure. She is beautiful as any blonde
girls in YA literature but her character will make you adore her even
more and her faith to God, everyone that loves her and herself is
unwavering is very inspiring. She may be on a constant struggle and
on a certain battle with herself as she is a half demon-half angel
but she handles it well. She actually is on top of my kindest YA
heroines.

As
every book has their hot, swoon-worthy, beyond gorgeous male leads,
Kaidan Rowe is not just your typical type. He's hott. Yes, H-O-T-T,
with the hot extra T on hot. Actually Kai is some kind of a prince of
lust. Yes, lust. So don't even wonder how many girls he's been with.
He may not be the most perfect guy when it comes to his character but
soon later in the series he had learned how to redeem himself.
Everything about him is to die for, that perfect face, British accent
and skills-drummer and composer skills to be specific. But the best
thing you can adore about him is his loyalty and love to Anna
amidst the struggle of his real nature.

Romance
between two very different people is hard to write about but Wendy
Higgins pulled it off so well. Not like the others that confuses you
like you don't even know what's happening to the world. Kai is all
the opposite to Anna, if Anna is that close to being a saint, Kai is
the very opposite. Their love is like being against the world but
they worked it out. And you'll love them both for fighting and
continue struggling for their love and other else they are fighting
for.

A
book wouldn't be as good if there are no good supporting characters
and this series won't fail you. There's Blake, a half-Filipino guy!
Yes, Filipino, you don't even know how much I'm proud of him (just
because I'm Filipino also lol). He's my boy. I just love him so much,
you will too and oh he'll make you jealous. And there are my super
twins! Gin and Marna, perfect Brit girls which makes them perfect
girl friends. (All the boys must have been drooling over them.) Kope,
dimple guy, cute and trustworthy, plus Zinia a shy sweet girl. And
then also there's Jay and Veronica, sweet human friends, they can't
be left out, in every fantasy book pure humans shouldn't be left out
that's a must.

I
know you've read a lot of YA books about Nephilims, I know, trust me
but this book is an exceptional one. It'll teach you a lot of things
about having a pure heart and fighting for everyone's sake even for
the one's who wronged you. As Wendy wrote, “Love is the
element worth existing for.”
I'll rephrase that “Books are the only things worth existing for.”
And the Sweet Series is one of them.

I have had this series on my TBR list for awhile but I wanted to own all of the ebooks then sit and read the whole series at one time, since you gave it such a high rating it just got moved up in my list, thanks for the great review.